LI Man With Knife Fatally Ran Over In NYC Road Rage: NYPD

UPPER EAST SIDE, NY — A Franklin Square man was killed during a road rage in New York City on Wednesday, the NYPD said.

Roberto Velez Alvarez, 54, was fatally run over after he pulled out a knife on another driver and slashed his tires, police said.

Andre Mosby, 26, was arrested and charged with manslaughter and assault after he ran over Velez Alvarez, sending him through the window of the Oxford Cafe on East 60th Street, police said.

Velez Alvarez was pinned against the building facade and was lying on the sidewalk when police arrived, authorities said.

He was later declared dead at New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornel Medical Center, according to officials.

Police said the road rage started at about 4 p.m. Wednesday when a gray 2020 Chevy Silverado and a gray 2014 Volkswagen Jetta were driving on East 60th Street between Park and Lexington avenues.

The two cars were involved in some sort of collision, officials said. Police told the Daily News that the fender bender was just a "love tap" with barely any visible damage.

Instead of exiting his vehicle with his insurance information in hand, the driver of the Silverado, Velez Alvarez, stepped out armed with a knife, police said.

The Long Island man then slashed the rear tires of the Jetta and approached the front of the car to face the 26-year-old driver, Mosby, whose girlfriend and three young children were also in the car, according to a Daily News review of surveillance footage.

Mosby then floored it, slamming into Velez Alvarez and sending him into the facade of the Upper East Side cafe and under the sedan, police said.

A friend of the driver and his girlfriend told the Daily News outside the 19th Precinct house that Mosby was just trying to protect his kids.

"It was in the heat of the moment," Kamel Osbourne, 26, told the Daily News. "He had a knife; there were kids in the car."

Patch's Peter Senzamici contributed to the report.